Quick lookup tables, glossary, and visual standards
Emoji
Action
Example
📥
Input
🙋♀️📥
📤
Output
🐔📤, 📤💁♀️
💭
Thinking
🐔💭
🚦
Routing
🐔🚦
🪺
Spawn
🐔🪺
⚡
Execute
🐦⚡
👀
Observe
🐔👀
✏️
Write
🐦✏️
✅
Validate
🙆♀️✅
❓
Question
🐔❓
🔀
Split
🐔🔀
🌀
Merge
🐔🌀
📋
Plan
🐔📋
🔄
Adjust
🐔🔄
💤
Idle
🐦💤
Emoji
Status
Color
✅
Success
Emerald
❌
Error
Red
⚠️
Warning
Amber
🔄
Progress
Blue
⏳
Pending
Slate
⏭️
Skip
Slate
Emoji
Type
Examples
🔧
Built-in
Read, Write, Bash, Grep
🔌
External (MCP)
Context7, Perplexity
🔧👀
Read
Read file
🔧🔍
Search
Grep
🔧🗂️
Find
Glob
🔧✏️
Write
Write, Edit
🔧📟
Shell
Bash
🔧🌐
Web
WebFetch, WebSearch
🪺
Spawn
Task (creates 🐦)
Emoji
Pattern
Type
🏎️
Direct Execution
Baseline (#0)
⛓️
Prompt Chaining
Workflow (#1)
🚦
Routing
Workflow (#2)
🛤️
Parallelization
Workflow (#3)
🦑
Orchestrator-Workers
Workflow (#4)
🩻
Evaluator-Optimizer
Workflow (#5)
🐔
Autonomous Agent
The Alternative
🧙
Wizard Workflows
Variant
🚂
Parallel Tool Calling
Variant
🧬
Master-Clone
Variant
🖥️
Multi-Window Context
Variant
📚
Progressive Skills
Mechanism
🎛️
Programmatic Orchestration
Mechanism
Component Emoji Reference
Emoji
Component
Location
🐦
Subagent
.claude/agents/*.md
🦴
Slash Command
.claude/commands/*.md
📚
Skill
.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md
🪝
Hook
.claude/settings.json
Emoji
Acteur
Role
🙆♀️
User (neutral)
Idle state
🙋♀️
User (input)
Sends input
💁♀️
User (output)
Receives output
🐔
Main Agent
Orchestrator
🐦
Subagent
Delegated worker